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Job Continues: My Life Has No Hope
Chapter 7
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"Has not man a hard service on earth, and are not his days like the days of a hired hand?
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Like a slave who longs for the shadow, and like a hired hand who looks for his wages,
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so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
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When I lie down I say, 'When shall I arise?' But the night is long, and I toss and turn till the dawn.
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My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt; my skin hardens, then breaks out afresh.
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My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle and come to their end without hope.
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"Remember that my life is a breath; my eye will never again see good.
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The eye of him who sees me will behold me no more; while your eyes are on me, I shall be gone.
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As the cloud fades and vanishes, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come up;
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he returns no more to his house, nor does his place know him anymore.
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"Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
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Am I the sea, or a sea monster, that you set a guard over me?
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When I say, 'My bed will comfort me, my couch will ease my complaint,'
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then you scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions,
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so that I would choose strangling and death rather than my bones.
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I loathe my life; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are a breath.
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What is man, that you make so much of him, and that you set your heart on him,
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visit him every morning and test him every moment?
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How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone till I swallow my spit?
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If I sin, what do I do to you, you watcher of mankind? Why have you made me your mark? Why have I become a burden to you?
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Why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie in the earth; you will seek me, but I shall not be."